Is the LSAT worth taking? I’m looking at ways of expanding skillsets past software engineering. Not sure if it’s worth learning law at middle age or not.
Yeah, it's only worth becoming a lawyer if you can attend a good school and can put in a shitload of hours at the beginning of your career, building a network and skills.
If you're not the networking type, and you don't have a lot of time in the day (because you have kids or other obligations), it's really hard to get a good legal career off the ground. Once it's going, though, you can consciously find ways to dial back the hours by working for certain employers and working in certain practice areas, but you generally won't get that opportunity until mid career, and you'll need to sweatshop early career connections to be able to have those options.
So it doesn't hurt to take the LSAT. But if you're not above the 80th percentile, and you're not able to get into a top 14 school nationally, or the best school in your state outside of those top 14, it'll be hard to make a good career out of it. Unless you're a nepo baby. And even then, results may vary.
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They say comic make you hee hee, but this only make me boo hoo 😢
I don’t like it because it’s me.
If only we could find galleries to sell it to.
They should put art on bus stops instead of ads.
And how exactly would we monetize that? It's like you don't even capitalism.
We charge people to look. And we know because we watch their eyes.
Art, by flock
We could call it... Flart. That seems appropriate.
PT in my city is legally mandated to source 50% of its funding from faires.
Me: so if a pay more I can not have ads everywhere I look?
PT: no.
What's the LSAT?
Test to get into law school
Yeah, it's essentially the law school entrance exam in the United States.
Unironically needs an actual gallery.
fucking brutal.
This body of work resonates with me something fierce.
Is the LSAT worth taking? I’m looking at ways of expanding skillsets past software engineering. Not sure if it’s worth learning law at middle age or not.
there has been a glut of lawyers for a good couple decades
Well boo
Yeah, it's only worth becoming a lawyer if you can attend a good school and can put in a shitload of hours at the beginning of your career, building a network and skills.
If you're not the networking type, and you don't have a lot of time in the day (because you have kids or other obligations), it's really hard to get a good legal career off the ground. Once it's going, though, you can consciously find ways to dial back the hours by working for certain employers and working in certain practice areas, but you generally won't get that opportunity until mid career, and you'll need to sweatshop early career connections to be able to have those options.
So it doesn't hurt to take the LSAT. But if you're not above the 80th percentile, and you're not able to get into a top 14 school nationally, or the best school in your state outside of those top 14, it'll be hard to make a good career out of it. Unless you're a nepo baby. And even then, results may vary.